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Calling all the shots – from North London

August 18 2011, 1:01am, The Times

The hush of Green Lane in Edgware, North London, a street of mock-Tudor villas, seems a long way from the clamour of a Karachi slum.

For Imran Farooq it was not far away enough. The 50-year-old died after being beaten around the head with a brick and stabbed with a kitchen knife by two men who were lying in wait on his doorstep one day in September last year.

The investigation into his murder has taken detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command into the murky world of Karachi politics. In the immediate aftermath of the attack it was reported that Dr Farooq had died as a result of an internal split within the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) party that he founded and there…

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